topic Moving location of the Python27 directory in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/moving-location-of-the-python27-directory/m-p/422339#M33208 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I want to move the Python27 directory to a different location. How do I tell ArcGIS how to find the new place?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is the distribution from ESRI a strict superset of the standard distribution? ie, as long as I don't have anything in site-packages that I'll miss, can I just throw away my existing Python27 directory that was download from the python site?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What is the highest release number within 2.7 that is valid for ArcGIS?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:09:26 GMT DavidStrip 2012-08-04T21:09:26Z Moving location of the Python27 directory https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/moving-location-of-the-python27-directory/m-p/422339#M33208 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I want to move the Python27 directory to a different location. How do I tell ArcGIS how to find the new place?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is the distribution from ESRI a strict superset of the standard distribution? ie, as long as I don't have anything in site-packages that I'll miss, can I just throw away my existing Python27 directory that was download from the python site?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What is the highest release number within 2.7 that is valid for ArcGIS?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:09:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/moving-location-of-the-python27-directory/m-p/422339#M33208 DavidStrip 2012-08-04T21:09:26Z Re: Moving location of the Python27 directory https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/moving-location-of-the-python27-directory/m-p/422340#M33209 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I thought that this was fixed in 10.1 to use the standard install.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I prefer python to be in C:\Python27 so that all other modules have this expected location. Some things such as the python help seem to be hardcoded for this location, not c:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All you have to do is save the </SPAN><STRONG>Desktop10.1.pth</STRONG><SPAN> file in site-packages, and the other modules </SPAN><STRONG>numpy</STRONG><SPAN> and </SPAN><STRONG>matplotlib</STRONG><SPAN>, uninstall python, delete the pesky directory and reinstall python2.7.x from the standard distribution. Then copy back the modules and the pth file which locates the arcpy modules.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Each time you install a service pack, rerun the python install to repair the paths back to normal.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have never had any problem with any dot release of the main version eg 2.6.x or 2.7.x which should only be bug fixes.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You may not get the bug fixed if you run the script in-process because the python version is imbedded.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>While you are there, install the Pythonwin package which gives you extra modules to win32 API, COM interfaces to MS Office applications, message boxes and even the registry.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A new location? Be careful what you do about that. You </SPAN><SPAN style="text-decoration:underline;"><STRONG>cannot</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN> have any spaces in the path. Maybe you are an 'administrator' who thinks that c:\Program Files (x86) would be tidier? You will condemn everyone to inexplicable crashes and error messages.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:09:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/moving-location-of-the-python27-directory/m-p/422340#M33209 KimOllivier 2012-08-09T00:09:03Z